Still Buffering 216: to All the Characters That Made Us Queer Published June 27Th, 2020 Listen Here at Themcelroy.Family
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Still Buffering 216: To All the Characters That Made Us Queer Published June 27th, 2020 Listen here at themcelroy.family [theme music plays] Rileigh: Hello, and welcome to Still Buffering: a cross-generational guide to the culture that made us. I am Rileigh Smirl. Sydnee: I'm Sydnee McElroy. Teylor: And I'm Teylor Smirl. Sydnee: Uh, well, I hope—how are you all doing? Rileigh: [muffled laughter] Fine. Sydnee: I was about to tell you how I'm doing, and that's rude. I didn't ask how you all are doing, so. Rileigh: I feel fine. Teylor: Fine, you know. Rileigh: Hm. Everything is kinda... the same, always, so... not much fluctuation. [laughs quietly] Sydnee: Uh... [pauses] Teylor: Go ahead. Rileigh: [laughs] Sydnee: That's it? You got nothin'? Teylor: You really—you really wanna tell us how you are. Rileigh: Yeah, how are you? Teylor: [laughs] Sydnee: Uh, I'm good, 'cause my garden's growin' really well. Rileigh: Oh, good. Teylor: Okay! Sydnee: Yeah. I, uh... Charlie said that about us yesterday. Justin was talking to somebody on the phone and she was like, "My Dad builds things now, and my Mom grows things." So— Teylor: Wow! Sydnee: —that's my new thing. I grow things. Rileigh: Quarantine turned Sydnee and Justin into that, you know... just homemaking couple. Sydnee: We're a—we're a homesteading couple. Rileigh: Mm-hmm. Husband builds the things that wife plants things in. [laughs] Sydnee: Mm-hmm. He has, he has. He built— Rileigh: I know! [laughs] Sydnee: —he build flower boxes out of bricks with our father, and now I'm planting flowers in them, and he built me a garden box out of wood, and I am—I planted a garden in it! Teylor: I really want—I—I—I did wanna ask you for confirmation, if all that woodworking is, in fact, what he's doing. 'Cause I wasn't sure if this was just an extended comedy bit on his Instagram. Sydnee: [laughs quietly] Rileigh: [laughs] Sydnee: No, he is really—he's really doing this. Uh, he has built, now, in addition to the garden box, uh, a table—we have a banquette in our island, but we never had a table for it. Rileigh: Which, if you didn't know what a banquette is, like I didn't until about, like, I don't know, a month ago, it's like a—like a window seat into your island that you put a table at. Sydnee: It's like a restaurant booth. Teylor: Yeah. Rileigh: Yeah. Sydnee: Yeah. Rileigh: Built in to your island. Sydnee: Yes, and we need—we had—we needed a table for it, and we never had one, so we would just kind of awkwardly... sit at this... banquette, for fun? I don't know. Teylor: Stare at the wall. Yeah, I—I've sat at that banquette and stared at that wall before. [laughs] Rileigh: [laughs] Sydnee: [laughs] So anyway, now we have a table! And he made two stools to go under the table. And, uh, what else has he made? Rileigh: He made a coat rack that looks like Legos for Charlie's room. Sydnee: That's right, he did that. Teylor: I saw that. Rileigh: He made a tiny little yellow table for out by your pool. Sydnee: Mm-hmm. Teylor: It's a nice yellow table. Rileigh: Mm-hmm. Sydnee: He made his own workbench to make other things out of wood on. Rileigh: [holding back laughter] Mm-hmm. Sydnee: [laughs quietly] Rileigh: A little meta moment. Sydnee: I know. [laughs quietly] Snake eating its own tail kind of thing there. [crosstalk] Teylor: It's very impressive! It's just—for every picture he uses the exact same caption, and then it's just, "Here's a picture of a very professional-looking piece of woodworking." Rileigh: Yeah. Teylor: Like, I don't know if this is just some real out-there comedy, if he's just goin' real—[laughs] just—[laughs] Sydnee: No, I told him that— Teylor: [holding back laughter] —performance art with woodworking. Sydnee: I told him that I support this hobby, because maybe he could become part of the woodworking community, and someday I can meet Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally. So— Teylor: Ah. Rileigh: Ohh, what if he becomes a contestant on that, um, crafts show that Nick Offerman and Les—er— Sydnee: Amy Poehler? Rileigh: —Leslie—[laughs] Amy Poehler do? [laughs] Sydnee: Yeah. There we go! See, this is—that's all I'm ever thinkin' about. Rileigh: There you go. Sydnee: [laughs quietly] I can meet people I'm a fan of. Rileigh: One degree of separation. [laughs] Sydnee: [laughs] With your woodworking abilities. Rileigh: Uh-huh. Teylor: [laughs] Sydnee: I'm sure that's how it works, right? Teylor: Yeah. Sydnee: Everybody who is—everybody who's into woodworking knows each other. Rileigh: Yeah. Sydnee: [laughs] Yeah! Teylor: You get added to a group text, just out of nowhere. [laughs quietly] Rileigh: But you have to keep it secret, so maybe he's already met, you know, Nick Offerman— Sydnee: Who are— Rileigh: —and they already are best buds. Teylor: Yeah, you have to start making wood to truly know the secrets. Rileigh: Yeah. Teylor: Making wood. Woodworking. Sydnee: Mm—well—well, no, here's the thing—no. Not— Rileigh: Making the wood. [laughs quietly] Sydnee: Making the wood. Teylor: No, you don't do that. Sydnee: That's not— Teylor: Well, you—you are growing things, so I guess in the long run, [holding back laughter] you could get there. Sydnee: That's true, I could make—yes, I could make wood. Rileigh: You could grow a tree. Sydnee: Yes, that is making wood. Rileigh: And then turn it into wood. Sydnee: Uh, I—who are some—who are some cool gardening fame-o's? [laughs quietly] Rileigh: Um... Sydnee: That I can be best buds with now? Rileigh: Um... do you think Gordon Ramsey gardens? Sydnee: [hums thoughtfully] Rileigh: I bet he would grow his own fresh produce. Sydnee: I— Rileigh: Right? Or herbs? Sydnee: —or at least herbs. Don't all fancy chefs have an herb garden? Teylor: Yeah... Rileigh: Yeah, I would think he would at least have an herb garden. Sydnee: I also have an herb garden. [laughs] Rileigh: Right, right, mm-hmm. Um— Sydnee: [laughs] Rileigh: —herb gardens have always confused me, because they're kind of ready once—like, if you don't buy the seeds—like, we bought the starters here at our house and at your house. Like, the little starters that you plant so you don't start from a seed. They're kind of ready from the moment you plant the starter. Right? Like, an herb is just, like—it's just the plant. Sydnee: I mean— Teylor: Yes. Sydnee: —it—yes. Rileigh: So you're just growing more of the plant. Sydnee: Uh-huh. Rileigh: So you have to be constantly using your supply of the plant, or else you just have... all of these herbs. Sydnee: Well... yeah—I mean, you do wanna keep using—I mean, like... there's no point, otherwise. If you're not gonna—like, you shouldn't wait for something to happen— Rileigh: "What do I do with all these herbs?!" [laughs] Sydnee: Like, I—I started using them, like, day two of planting my herb garden. But, um, they get bigger. I mean, like, if you look, like... my herb garden is quite lush. [laughs quietly] Rileigh: Oh! Teylor: See, that—I—I find that the opposite problem is what I've had, where I'll, like—I mean, I've had, like, little potted herbs in my apartment. But, like—it's like, "Okay. I've got some basil. Okay, I took—I took the six basil leaves that I've grown, and I put it in the salad. Well, now I guess I gotta wait for a plant to be a plant again, for more basil." Sydnee: [laughs] Rileigh: Gotta wait for more basil! [laughs] Teylor: Like, you need a lot of it to be, like, an active thing you can rely on. My, uh—actually my boss, like, hung a hanging herb garden at the restaurant and was like, "You can use this in your cocktails!" And I would get, like... ten sprigs of rosemary off of it at a time. I'd be like, "This is not—no. [through laughter] Like, I can make—okay. If we have five customers a day, then we can say these drinks are made with fresh herbs from our garden. Anything more than that, and we gotta go buy some." Rileigh: No. Yep. [laughs] Sydnee: I tell you, the only thing that would work for is mint, because I have— one of my—I have, like, um, barrels... on my back deck, that I've put all the herbs in. Rileigh: Yeah, of various sizes. Sydnee: Yes, various sizes of barr—I tried to make them look nice. Rileigh: It does look nice! Sydnee: Aes—aesthetically pleasing barrels. [laughs] Rileigh: They are aesthetically pleasing barrels. Sydnee: [laughs quietly] Filled with herbs. Rileigh: Yeah! Sydnee: The mint barrel... has gone wild. The mint barrel is— Teylor: Ooh, mint gone wild! Rileigh: [laughs] Sydnee: Ye—mint does. You can't plant it with other herbs, 'cause it will just... it will rule all herbs. Um, and so my mint barrel—I'm still worried. Even though it is separated by barrel walls from my other herbs, I—I feel like it's going to—like it's plotting.